Malay Specialist (AI Training)

DataAnnotation; Ireland; Remote; EUR 29,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Weekly payouts

Remote work

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking a Malay Expert to review and correct AI translations. You will judge register consistency, assess affixes, and ensure Malay output matches formal and colloquial usage. You will score model results and provide native-like revisions across English-Malay translations.

The role is a flexible, remote contract with weekly payouts. Compensation is up to $40/hr with potential for higher annual earnings in project work, depending on task difficulty and specialization.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native fluency in Malay.
• Feel for affixes and for formal vs colloquial usage.
• Clear written English: explanations are the training signal.
• No degree required; we care about what you can do, not where learned.

Responsibilities

• Review translations between English and Malay for meaning, flow, and register.
• Score and rank model output in Malay, catching misused affixes and mismatched formality.
• Write the better version when the model falls short, natural enough to read as native.

Skills

Malay fluency

English proficiency

Job description

Overview

Malay trips AI on register: formal written Malay and everyday colloquial speech pull in different directions, and the model blends them awkwardly. It mishandles affixes that change a word entirely and often cannot tell where Malaysian usage parts from Indonesian, which a native speaker sees straight away.

Malay trips AI on register: formal written Malay and everyday colloquial speech pull in different directions, and the model blends them awkwardly. It mishandles affixes that change a word entirely and often cannot tell where Malaysian usage parts from Indonesian, which a native speaker sees straight away.

As a Malay Expert, you'll judge and correct AI output in Malay, teaching models to match the register and the region.

What you’ll actually do

• Review translations between English and Malay for meaning, flow, and register.
• Score and rank model output in Malay, catching misused affixes and mismatched formality.
• Write the better version when the model falls short, natural enough to read as native.

Roles this fits

Common backgrounds: Malay Linguist, Bilingual Reviewer, Localization Specialist.

What we look for

• Native or near-native fluency in Malay.
• A feel for affixes and for formal versus colloquial usage.
• Clear written English: your explanations are the training signal.
• No degree required. We care about what you can do, not where you learned it.

Compensation

Up to $40/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $100k–$200k a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 1M+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. Hundreds of millions paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.

Hourly rate up to $40 / hour

Commitment Flexible hours

Type Independent contractor

Payouts Weekly